"The Voters in Iowa and Beyond" by coots receives Karita Hummer's Silver Pen Award

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Reposted from John Edwards for 2008 blog

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11/25/2007 at 10:28 PM EST

Shortly after the Democratic voters of Iowa would have gathered in churches, school buildings, government building, and senior citizens center to caucus to make their decision who they think the next Democratic Nominee for president should be. President Bush will be addressing the United States Congress and the nation in the traditional "State of Union Address". Let us examine the State of the Union since president Bush has taken office

First of all he did not get off to a very good start, The Republican controlled Supreme Court had stolen the 2000 election. The newly appointed President Bush then had the audacity to say that " He had a mandate from the American people to govern", ignoring that Al Gore had received over a half a million more votes than he did. How in a world could he say he had a mandate? Let us look at what has happened in the last seven years Since the Republican and Bush pull that shameful take over? We have had a major terrorist attack on 9/11 where nearly 3000 people had lost their lives, and the mastermind behind the evil act Osama Bin Laden is still at large. The world just for a brief time rallied around the United States, giving Bush an excellent opportunity to achieve greatness in solving many of the world's problems and bringing the perpetrators of 9/11 to justice. No, instead he selected to pull a so called "bate and switch" on the American people in attacking Iraq. We were told that Iraq had massive amounts of weapons of mass destruction, and they were attempting to develop a nuclear bomb. We were told that Iraq was a direct threat to the United States. There was also an implication that just maybe Saddam Hussein was involved with the 9/11 attacks. It was all lies. The lies have causes nearly 4000 American soldier's their lives, nearly 70 thousand casualties. Tens of Thousands of Iraqis have lost their lives. Billions upon billions of dollar spent on this ill-conceived war. Billions of dollars are missing and cannot be accounted for. There have been bribes and no bid contracts given to Bush and Cheney's corporate friends. In the battlefield front our soldier's have been deprived of the proper equipment, body armor, proper food, and water. Once again Bush has the audacity to say, he is a friend of the American Soldier. To often when the wounded warriors come home their medical needs are not taken care of. They fall into the category of an already over crowed group of forgotten American, forgotten by Bush who had said on many occasion. " America will take care of their Veterans" The Soldiers that have fought in this war that Bush had started, Bush now has turned his back on them. The United States was respected in most corners of the world. We were that "Shinning City" that Reagan once said. Now we are despised and not trusted by much of the world. All the credit for all the above destruction should be given to Bush, he has certainly earned it.

On the home front our gas prices are now over three dollars a gallon. Has there been any real effort by this president to find any alternative clean sources of energy. The answer is no. Why should he? It would not be in the best interest of the oil and gas industries, Bush's corporate friends. The oil and gas companies are only showing a profit margin that is unheard of in all of human history. In the energy area Bush would not dare to do something that would be in the best interest of the American people.

When Bush took office less than 40 million of Americans did not have health insurance, now over seven million have been added to that number. Has Bush done anything to address the health care crises in our nation? Once again the answer is no. Why should he do anything to address the needs of 47 million Americans, when it is not in the best interest of the insurance and drug companies?

I have not even touched on a failing education system the Global-warming problem that Bush chooses to ignore. I could go on for hours.

I am asking the voters of Iowa to support John Edwards for President because he has the brains and most importantly the courage to stand up to those corporations that control this country. Hillary Clinton who is a very capable person but would do little to address the real problems in Washington the corporate lobbyists, she would be obligated to them. She is the Status Quo Candidate. Obama is also very capable but he is to nice and to green to deal with the back stabbing element of our government. The American people are at war here at home against the corporations that want to keep us down for the sake of their bottom line. We need a fighter for a president like John Edwards. Edwards has been fighting his entire adult life against many of those corporations, in the courtrooms or now as he is campaigning for Presidents. The voters in Iowa and beyond need to ask themselves a question that Robert F. Kennedy asked many years ago. "What kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in."
here is a link; http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/26/politics/main3540352.shtml